February 23, by Aileen

Today Mr.Kootman said he was proud of us because we only had two kids missing their home work! First, we did review in our math book to prepare us for the test on Monday. If you have heard of the classic card game ‘War’ or ‘High card wins’ then you’ll know what I’m talking about. The whole class got to play war during math time but this wasn’t the regular card game, it was decimal war.

After math we took the spelling test witch was very hard. Next, we all went out for a refreshing and delightful recess. When recess was over we all almost ran through the door like little puppies rushing to get food! To prepare us for comprehension and language arts test, Island of the Blue Dolphins we did handing off. This is where we sit on our desks and discuss our story. After handing off we did the comprehension and language arts test. It took at least a few minutes to finish, because the page we had for home work we didn’t have the page!

Since we were working so quietly, Mr.Kootman did auctions. Most kids started acting like all sorts of monkeys! Next, we walked to lunch but, when we were in the lunch room it was so loud. After that craziness in lunch, we had a calm read aloud of A Week In The Woods. We were almost finished with the book but we had to stop to get other work done. When that was over, we started making our final draft Island of the Blue Dolphins. Then we estimated on how much marbles we had in the jar. It was like Mr.Kootman did all the math though because we didn’t really get it. We all looked like we had no idea what he was doing because it wasn’t a fourth grade standard. There were about 100 marbles! Finally, we all went out to HOT time when it was actually cold!